Interpreter-led Programs

Funlights of Technology - Grades: K, 1 and 2

Have we got a job for you! Whether in an urban factory building cars on an assembly line, on a rural farm making rope, or training to be a courteous service station attendant, students have a great time learning how cooperation gets the job done!

Curriculum Ties
Kindergarten Social Studies: K.1: I am Unique; K.2 I belong
Grade 1 Social Studies: 1.1: My World; 1.2: Moving Forward with the Past
Grade 2 Social Studies: 2.2: A Community in the Past

Come on down and let’s play Fly or Flop. Students look at a variety of early airplane designs and guess which
ones got off the ground and which ones did not. Students discuss the importance of design and materials in the development
of an airplane and are introduced to the experiments of Alexander Graham Bell, with the tetrahedral kite. Each builds a kite
to take home.

Explore how automotive design
has evolved and put this new knowledge to work when building and customizing
a mini racer. Students test their inventions on the RAM raceway. Each student
takes their car home.

Learn the relationship
between electricity and magnetism and their importance in mechanization. By
constructing an electric motor, students discover how electricity is used to
produce magnetism and how magnetism generates electricity.

Divided into three fun, educational hands-on stations, students explore flight, air and aerodynamics. Station One allows
students to observe how air moves over a surface using a wind tunnel, discusses Bernoulli’s Principal and the importance of
airfoils. At Station Two, students will manipulate a model to investigate a variety of aircraft configurations and how they
operate. Station Three pits teams against each other in a fun interactive game show identifying control surfaces and major
components of an aircraft, and allows students to try out the controls in a 1940 Stinson and 1965 Hughes helicopter.

Learn about the history and the future of space travel. Conduct Newtonian experiments to explore the laws of Physics.
Challenge your knowledge of aerodynamics by designing and building a rocket. Students will use their rocket in a “Rocket
Challenge” to test their design for distance and accuracy, with the opportunity to improve their design for maximum
efficiency.

Come join us for the thrill of bringing in the harvest! A one-day-only experience of all things agriculture. Students will see farm equipment in action and test their skills at butter making, winnow and flailing, rope making and plowing. They will also see demonstrations of threshing, seeding and how a grain elevator works.

The program starts at 10:00am sharp and runs until 3:00pm. Schools are encouraged to stay for as long as they can. Classes/groups rotate through the stations. There is a 30 min lunch break at noon. Bag lunches only, there is no opportunity to purchase lunch. All stations are outside. Proper footwear and clothing are required.

Take a close
look at how simple machines translate energy into motion, speed and force.
Students explore practical applications of simple machines using a cream separator,
a Penny Farthing bicycle and a tricycle.

Using Lego® Dacta
Kits, students analyze mechanical devices and identify components that operate
as simple machines. They construct both gear and belt-driven systems and assess
turning ratios between a driving and driven shaft.

It is all about
consumerism and quality of life! Students investigate how the automobile industry
relates to economics, culture and consumer wants. Students write and present
a commercial for an automobile, taking into consideration the culture, economics
and consumer wants of the time. The class will be given an electronic copy
of their presentations to take back to school.

Curriculum Ties
Grade 9 Social Studies: 9.1: Issues for Canadians: Governance and Rights; 9.2: Issues for Canadians: Economic Systems in Canada and the United States
Program Length: 2 hours
Students per Program: 15 - 30
Supervision: 3
Cost: $6 per student

The Mad
Trapper is on the loose! Using clues provided on the information panels of
the Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame Members, students search for one of the
most infamous criminals in Canadian history.